News Release (09/08/11)
Bristol Airport has been nominated for one of the travel industry’s most prestigious awards for the second year running.
The Airport has been shortlisted for the ‘Best UK Airport’ prize in the TTG Travel Awards, run by the travel industry’s leading trade magazine, Travel Trade Gazette.
Jason Wescott, Head of Sales and Marketing at Bristol Airport, said:
“Travel agents across the South West and South Wales play a vital role in promoting the benefits of flying from Bristol Airport to their customers, so we are delighted to have been nominated for this award which is voted for by the agents themselves.”
Daniel Pearce, editor of TTG, said:
“This year’s entries have been of an amazing quality – and our unique combination of voting by travel agents and judging by industry experts means the eventual winners of the TTG Award will have truly earned their status. We congratulate those who’ve made it onto our hotly contested shortlist.”
Judges for the awards include experts from leading travel companies and trade bodies such as Thomas Cook, Sandals and the Institute of Travel and Tourism, as well as leading figures from the worlds of commerce and retail.
This year’s winners will be announced at a spectacular ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel on 22 September.
TTG is the leading travel publication for the UK travel industry, with news and features read by frontline high street travel agents through to chief executives of FTSE-100 travel companies.